After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This is a CID investigation into the death of Ahmed Salih Khtheer, a detainee shot following a roadside stop and search in Samarra, Iraq on January 6, 2006. A US Army patrol operating out of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Brassfield-Mora, Samarra, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ahmed Salih Khtheer
Physical assault, General
This is a CID investigation into the death of Moslum Dawood Humud, a detainee who died at the Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq on November 6, 2006. Mr. Humud was admitted to the CSH after being captured following a ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Moslum Dawood Humud
Physical assault
A CID investigation into the death of Jaseem Emad, a detainee at the Baghdad central Concentration Facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib on August 22, 2005. Mr Emad died from "gunshot wounds to the abdomen, left shoulder, and left hip" received in "an ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Jaseem Emad
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Abdullah Fawzzi, a detainee at the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF) Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Iraq on January 30, 2005. Mr. Fawzzi was initially a patient of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdulla Fawzzi
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Mohammed Anwar Abdulkarim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on October 27, 2007. Mr. Abdulkarim was attacked by another detainee and stabbed to death. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammed Anwar Abdulkarim
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Hader Ali Hussein, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on July 20, 2007. Mr. Hussein was attacked and beaten by other detainees in Compound 10C of Camp Bucca ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hader Ali Hussein
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death Mohammad Qusay Khalid, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq, on July 11, 2007. Mr. Khalid was attacked & beaten by other detainees for an apparent violation of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Oversight Report, Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammad Qusay Khalid
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death Mohammad Khudayer Abulla, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Abulla was strangled to death on September 13, 2007 by other detainees, and ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Mohammad Khudayer Abulla
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Marwan Taha Ahmed, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper. It is reported that on the morning of November 26, 2007, Mr. Ahmed failed to report for the daily headcount of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Marwan Taha Ahmed
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Layith Husayn Khalaf Al Fahadwi, a detainee at Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Tent 4, Compound 4. On November 11, 2007 soldiers were alerted that Mr. Al Fahadwi was not well. He was ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Layith Husayn Khalaf Al Fahadwi
Physical assault